Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Nishina Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hiroyuki Horiuchi

Tetsuya Goto

Yasuhiro Maeda

Keinosuke Ichikawa

A hydraulic parking brake device is selectively switched between a braking state and a non-braking state. A braking force decreases as a pressure in the control oil chamber increases and increases as the pressure in the control oil chamber decreases. The device includes a discharged oil restrictor located in a discharge passage and an accumulator connected to the control oil chamber. The accumulator is capable of releasing hydraulic oil to the control oil chamber when the braking force is greater than that at the time when the parking brake device is switched from the non-braking state to the braking state and the braking force can further be increased during the braking state of the parking brake device. Thus, the parking brake device can gradually brake the vehicle from the running state.

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Nagano-ken, Japan

Hiroyuki Horiuchi